We are planning to hold a hybrid (in-person and online) conference on Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd July 2027 in Lancaster, UK. We would love to hear from the fan studies community about what you want from the event so please complete the expression of interest questionnaire below.

Save the Date: Fan Studies at 35 After an 8 year hiatus the FSN conference is back! We’re thinking about the state of the field 35 years after the publication of Henry Jenkins’ Textual Poachers, Camille Bacon-Smith’s Enterprising Women, & Lisa the edited collection The Adoring Audience in 1992.

CFP for Fan Studies at PCA 2027 in Boston is OUT! Submissions are OPEN! Deadline is OCTOBER 31!! Bring us your geekery and HMU if you have questions!!

putting my journal editor hat on: one of y'all #fanstudies people please write me something for @journal.transformativeworks.org about the apparently universal fandom of Dolly Parton.

What better way to kick off the countdown to FSNNA 2026 Conference than by announcing our first special event?? 🗓️ Oct 22, 5pm ET, members of our very own organizing committee are hosting a #FanStudies Methods Roundtable! 🔗 Info & registration: website-8aff4977.tou.dpn.mybluehost.me/2026-confere...

New Mexico's Zozobra offers a cure in chaotic times.

Santa Fe's Zozobra burns away personal worries, collective gloom

A spectacle of despair will be set ablaze for the 102nd year in downtown Santa Fe Sept. 4, as thousands watch a 50-foot-tall effigy known as

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Tonight, Santa Fe burns "Old Man Gloom" for the 102nd year. Thousands write their troubles on slips of paper called "glooms" and stuff them into the 50-foot Zozobra before it goes up in flames. This year's theme honors America's 250th and Dolly Parton. 🔥

Santa Fe's Zozobra burns away personal worries, collective gloom

A spectacle of despair will be set ablaze for the 102nd year in downtown Santa Fe Sept. 4, as thousands watch a 50-foot-tall effigy known as

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My new edited book is out today! And it's open access so you can all read it for free! I'm so excited to share what all these amazing authors have to say about work that crosses design research and fan studies. I'll be highlighting chapters over the next few days. www.emerald.com/books/edited...

Bridging Design and Fandom: Fan Studies and Design Research in Conversation

Fandom studies and design are both relatively young disciplines both of which are familiar with interdisciplinarity, and with co-production and participati

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I'm so excited to be able to help host the next Fan Studies Network conference at @lancasteruni.bsky.social, as supported by our School of Arts! Looking forward to seeing all you #FanStudies folks next year... (do complete the survey to help planning!)

Fan Studies Network@fanstudies.bsky.social · 2w ago

We are planning to hold a hybrid (in-person and online) conference on Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd July 2027 in Lancaster, UK. We would love to hear from the fan studies community about what you want from the event so please complete the expression of interest questionnaire below.

also coming this fall: beginning fiction, also lyric poetry workshop (suitable if you're already been in one of my courses, but very beginner friendly)—dates/times TBA, tell a friend! zoë the tabby cat will be there

i think about this interview with the late bill knott possibly more than anyone should. i think about him quite often. www.memorious.org?id=140

also coming this fall: beginning fiction, also lyric poetry workshop (suitable if you're already been in one of my courses, but very beginner friendly)—dates/times TBA, tell a friend! zoë the tabby cat will be there

preview of the double album, coming soon to a very small press near you (september 1)

every time someone says, "oh so academics just take the whole summer off?" another adjunct dies

Ron Padgett

Toshiro Mifune leaving the set of Yojimbo, in costume, in a MG convertible, SWORD ON THE DASHBOARD.

also sprach fritz

shoutout to the film student who lost her entire MIND over moonlight. just went batshit on canvas, i could not love her more. picked up every single thing jenkins was throwing down, typed out a whole-ass taylor swift song about it, bolded and ANNOTATED its relevant lyrics. girl thank u for my life

Will Asbestos Make Make Cotton Candy Obsolete?

Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 4mo ago

WTF, NYer. "If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work..." We do not. So much for the bastion of erudite journalism. This is sensationalism, damaging our most vital institution: education. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

There are instructors who will ask students for evidence of medical problems or family deaths, & there are instructors who would never do such a thing. Your response to the AI push probably correlates with which group you are in.

Nice work, @insidehighered.com This is a perfect headline & lede.

Rosamund Stanhope

new salinger novel discovered???

Opium Fogs (1963), Rosemary Tonks's second novel, is, if nothing else, full of loathing odes to London that aspire to Bleak House's “Michaelmas term lately over” opening: "The Metropolis was clad in mildew, alive with glittering ooze and great fever clouds." neglectedbooks.com/?... 1/2

Watercolour illustrations from Mary Gartside’s An Essay on a New Theory of Colours (1808). Hand-made and unique to each volume, the images have been deemed some of the earlier examples of abstraction in painting. More in the post on the site — publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...

"it takes two or three generations to do what i tried to do in one." per the late poet bill knott, the failure is mine alone.

What if we just went back to reading a bunch of books and thinking about them together, and that was the class? With syllabi no longer than three pages.

me: darn it, i forgot the deadline and now it's too late to apply and yet again fail to receive an NEA individual artist grant the NEA: hey that's okay! not a problem! after decades of funding thousands of writers including most of your friends and teachers we just got rid of those, hope that helps

April Fool‘s warrants reposting this arxiv.org/abs/2204.06826

Exhaustive Survey of Rickrolling in Academic Literature

Rickrolling is an Internet cultural phenomenon born in the mid 2000s. Originally confined to Internet fora, it has spread to other channels and media. In this paper, we hypothesize that rickrolling ha...

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